Thread CLI working

[Alan Ajit]

Dear nordic,

I want to test Thread. I selected Thread Cli example for this. but i need to know something regard this. Iam new in the thread. from this example command is used for setting network every thing

i want to know where this command processing what are the API used for this to set thread network.( for example if we set command >PANID 0xabcd where this command process. which API call for setting the pan id) . is it any document how this cli works(i need deep documentation).

CLI used UART pin 6 and 8 for command. is it possible this UART cli to change to another pin if it possible where i to change(which files)? i want to change this CLI uart to another pin and test CLI commands using this pin . can you suggest how this possible what are the changes needed? i need a support from your side. I tried to find where this UART pins are configured i didn't find that one . can you guide me how this CLI works? How to change UART pins for CI commands?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

The CLI reference can be found in the OpenThread Github repository. If you want to look at implementation-specific details, the source code are openly available in the same repository.

UART pin configuration are given in the platform configuration header file. Changing the pins requires rebuilding the OpenThread libraries.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[Alan Ajit]

Thanks for your reply.I found that source code  its just describe the commands what implemented on open thread. i want to know how this process?(for example setting pan id where this happen when a command send through UART)

another thing in UART pins  i didn't find this platform-config.h file (totally confuse me where this uart init happen?)

I need your help. i Just want to implement a thread network for this i want to know the API's for create thread this why iam asking where this CLI comand prosess where the API curresponding to CLI comands call and also i want to know where this UART pin defined(i didn't get that header)

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

You need to follow the function calls to see what happens. For instance, the panid command will call Interpreter::ProcessPanId(), which again will call otLinkGetPanId() or otLinkSetPanId() to get or set the PanID.

The platform-config.h file is not available in our SDK, it is used when building the OpenThread stack that is included in our SDK as a prebuilt library. You cannot change the UART pins in the SDK, you need to clone the OpenThread repository and build it using the instructions that I linked in my above answer. CLI is an example in the OpenThread implementation and is not implemented in our SDK.